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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1002259" data-attributes="member: 11987">Re: Re: Re: WoTC books are CHEAP!Most people in my group buy there own books so I would need to figure in their expense too. I was dealing exclusively with my own cost and benefits.Ok I have spent about $3000 on computers and about $2000 on internet access and electricity for the computer in the past 4 years and have spent at least 5000 hours playing games on them. So that is about $1/hour for coumputer gaming. I also use my computer for other unrelated tasks which are necessary for my profession so that I think should defray the cost a bit. If I spend 90 dollars on the core books and play 5 hours a week for 3 years thats 780 hours so about $0.11/hour if (and it is a big if) I do not buy and other supplements. If I spend my normal amount on games ($80/month) it comes out to about $4/hour. I could also play for free using the SRD and bootlegged PDF scans if I wanted.I was and am dealing with only my own costs. When the people I play with help cover the cost of my books we can talk about communal time.It costs my time and frustration both of which are more valuable to my then money. I spend a decent amount of money on 3rd edition products, especialy WotC ones, and don't look forward to the other costs I will have to pay with 3.5 the money is relatively inconsequential at least to me.I did not actualy talk about DVDs. But, a bad DVD would cause me much less grief then a bad edition of D&D.You also need dice. And I am not really interested the theoretical minimuim cost of playing D&D. In reality I do use electricly, I do buy food and soda, I do pay for the house we play in, I do buy game supplies that cost more than paper, and I do buy lots of rule supplements. If you want to talk about cheap entertainment we should talk about my $12.50 chess board which has seen about 1000 hours of use over it's life so about $0.01/hour. Or verbal only games I some times play with my friends which cost us nothing but our own creativity.  Sure it is my choice but you have to spend some time perparing for a game or at least learning the rules. D&D requires effort on my part and many comparble forms of entertainment do not. If I pay for a product it value is mitigated some what by the effort I put into it to get enjoyment out of it. The cost of 3.5 I find expensive has nothing to do with money. Although I don't think that D&D as many of us play it is particularly cheap.</blockquote>

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